“By Season 7, our main cast was made up of a bisexual woman and her lesbian wife, a gay man who invented time travel to save his boyfriend, a fairly flamboyant pansexual — arguably not cis — alien with a girlfriend, the only asexual on network television, and had just said goodbye to a bisexual man who’d had meaningful relationships with men and women — who just left, didn’t die, just left. The rest of the characters were ostensibly straight, but all the actors said they were comfortable with the idea of their characters being LGBTQ+ as well and supported and encouraged headcanons. The show started with one bisexual woman and a bunch of straight people.

On top of that, it was just so much FUN, and big-hearted. This was a goofy family who had the best time and got up to the silliest stuff. It’s so joyful and a great antidote to serious, heterosexual superhero stuff.”

—garebehr